Birmingham Mail - Tag - roger clarke

Roger's Rant: Liverpool must take some of blame for Suarez affair

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:54:00 GMT

HOPEFULLY, rub lucky rabbit’s foot (lucky unless you are the rabbit, of course), the Suarezgate affair is now over, done and dusted . . . until next season.

Roger Clarke: Please stop the complaints about the World Cup football

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:56:00 GMT

WHEN the main topics of World Cup conversation seem to be about the vuvuzela or the Jabulani ball then you can take it the matches have not exactly been toasting the old Mother’s Pride.

Losers have a special place in our hearts

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:07:00 GMT

WHY do we have such an obsession with losers? Is it because we can identify with them – we see them as some sort of soulmate?

US billionaire’s bounty just cheapens game

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:54:00 GMT

IS it just me or does the Stanford Super Series have the same sort of appeal and wow factor as an Estonian National Under-23 tractor pulling final qualifiers?

A Ham-fisted insult to the poor relations of football

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:07:00 GMT

I DON’T think it would stretch exaggeration too far to say that if a Premiership club such as ... say, Sheffield United ... had brought in a couple of South Americans in murky financial and contractual circumstances, with a few porkies chucked in to muddy the waters even further, and then been caught bang to rights by the League, they would be playing their football somewhere around Conference North this season.

Why Setanta is a saviour for England fans

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:42:00 GMT

I MUST admit I am not one of those moaning about Setanta holding the rights to England’s away games.

Michel Platini is bang on the money

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:26:00 GMT

MICHEL Platini might lose a little in the translation as UEFA President but he does seem to have caught a dose of the same malaise that seems to have afflicted most soccer administrators – the old foot in the mouth.

Time-wasting rules just add insult to ‘injury'

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:57:00 GMT

IT WAS remarkable that tennis player Ilie Nastase managed to play as well as he did considering his serious stomach complaint.

Curtain set to rise on Sutton Coldfield pub theatre company

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:59:00 GMT

NORTH Birmingham will have its first pub theatre later this month when a Sutton Coldfield local gets ready to raise the curtain on the other RSC.

Time to dive into the Olympic drama on the box

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:15:00 GMT

DON’T you just love the Olympics? We are currently going through the old leap-year sports – the ones that appear on telly every four years – with the BBC doing cartwheels whenever a Brit appears adding a double somersault with twist if there is a medal as well.